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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-ckr3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84
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Language
Latin
Reconstruction Summary

...autem profecti pr[a]edicaverunt...[no image of verso]. The end of the Gospel Reading for St. Mark and the beginning of "Obsecro te", from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours known as the St. Alexis Hours. Full border of acanthus and rinceaux in gold and colors with birds and other creatures. Roundel miniature in the outer central margin of recto and verso. Recto: Virgin and Child seated in a garden; [no image of verso]. On the recto, historiated initial [O] with a nobly-gowned woman standing on a path gazing a a heavenly aperture above. Dismembered in the 1990s. This leaf offered by Bruce Ferrini, Catalogue 1, no. 84, current location unknown.

(Lisa Fagin Davis)
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  • Simmons School of Library and Information Science LIS 464 (Fall 2025) observations
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Online Since
12/06/2025

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours"

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-ckr3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84

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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" (Fragment), Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84 (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ckr3)

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Online Since
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1450 – 1500 CE · France (Northern) · 195 x 142 (85 x 62) mm

F-ckr3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84

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Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Northern Textualis
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Book of hours

Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours" Gospel Reading for St. Mark; Obsecro te

F-ckr3

Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84
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Book of Hours (Use of Paris), "The St. Alexis Hours", Unknown, Current Location Unknown, Bruce Ferrini Rare Books I. 84
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